This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard.
Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: "figure+? or "the figural+? in Discourse, Figure, "unbound intensities+? in his "libidinal+? writings, "the feeling of the diff